Key achievements!

Another huge week! We achieved so much and are rightly chuffed with our efforts.  

Filling the skip was our main focus and we did excellent work with that, getting our money's worth from the hire.  To maximise useful space, we put all the flat things in first, creating many (and very neat) layers.  

An old desk was broken down into parts.  Given it's weight, Nick cut the top into pieces.  The smaller sections were lighter and easier to carry to the skip.

Our current house has issues downstairs during extended and/or heavy rain.  Those issues have worsened during our time here - and the old desk had water damage.

The second-hand carpet tiles, purchased in 2013 for our Victorian rental, came to Queensland.  

We'd used the tiles downstairs till we became aware of the water/flooding problems - so they were also binned (due to mould).

The skip was collected early on the morning of our settlement day, which was great timing!

Nick had modified our Tweety trailer during the week, to create a drop-down tailgate.  He'd filled it with our black metal shelving units (purchased to protect stored items from downstairs flooding) - ready to take over when we got our house keys!

Three of those four shelving units have been erected at the new house.  The previous owner was a metal fabricator and left a lot of very solid shelving already in place.  

We are still deciding where our stuff will go - so have measured some items, to aid decision making. The new living area is smaller than here - and though we have sold some furniture pieces, other items may also need to go (after we've moved).  

Our removalists are booked for next week.  I fine-tuned our inventory with them before paying the revised invoice.  Our $200ish of furniture sales reduced the volume of our move, saving about $120.00.  

Interestingly when I updated our address for insurance, we received a refund for one vehicle but the premium went up for another - both with the same insurer.  We're $55ish in front though - another bonus!

I've done a fair bit of admin for the move.  Services are semi-organised.  (We're working through some of the usual hiccups). 

Cleaners are booked - and yes, I'm really looking forward to them doing that work!  

We've packed up the greater majority of our current downstairs area, so will now shift (hah!) our attention to the main house, prepping everything for the removalists.  It still looks daunting at this stage but I'm sure we'll make serious inroads over the next few days - cos we'll have to!

Week 11 tally. Boxes donated: 1 (bringing that total to 20). Boxes packed: 22. Total packed: 135.  Tape rolls finished: 2 (five rolls emptied so far).